David Morrell Quotes
When I started 'First Blood,' back in 1968, I was deeply influenced by Geoffrey Household's 'Rogue Male.'
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
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When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.
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Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
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My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.
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Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.
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The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.
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I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
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I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.
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I never starved myself.
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My prayer became 'May I find peace... May I love this life no matter what.' I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness that could carry me through whatever losses might come.
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The thing that sucks is that there's so much false data because people are in mystery as to what Scientology is, so they just kind of make up stuff.
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That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down each week and get to know your character and get to know the show and get to know what's going on and fall in love with you all over again, like they did in previous shows.
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As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business.
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Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.
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Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a genius. You don't have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.
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I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping.
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When I started 'First Blood,' back in 1968, I was deeply influenced by Geoffrey Household's 'Rogue Male.'
